146311 - Improper formatting of background or text spacing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect, P3)

Description

[Greg Harrison]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0rc2)
Gecko/20020510
BuildID:    20020510

The text which is supposed to fall between the purple bars overlaps the right
purple bar.  This problem is not present in IE 6.  This problem also affects the
IRIX build.  It is an active server page, so this may be an IE-formatted page. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open page
2. Look 
3.

Expected Results:  Text fit properly.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

WFM on a current trunk CVS build and on 7.0b1 - Linux

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

confirming with win2k build 20020522..

-> Layout

Comment 3

[Chris Petersen]

Changing priority to P3.

Comment 4

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Tables.  That middle cell is 48px wider than specified...

Comment 5

[Haudy Kazemi]

This bug is still present on Mozilla 1.7b and Firefox .8:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040316
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

Haven't tried Firefox .9 yet.

Comment 6

[Bernd]

A reduced testcase would be good here.

Comment 7

[jpl24]

Still a bug with:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040707 Firefox/0.9.2

The bug is caused by the long line of hyphens at the bottom of this page. The
length of that line exceeds the width of the table cell. If you shorten the
number of hyphens, the page renders the same on IE and Firefox. IE breaks the
line into two, whereas Firefox extends the entire table cell. I'll upload a very
brief testcase that shows the difference. 

Comment 8

[jpl24]

Attachment: Table Cell testcase

Shows the difference between IE and Mozilla. 

PS: Bernd I saw your blog, I could use a Gmail account.

Comment 9

[Bernd]

I think this is an IE bug, I haven't seen a lot of them in table layout but this
seems to be one. We render this identical to opera and NN4.8

Comment 10

[Bernd]

*** Bug 269539 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11

[Bernd]

what IE (also IE8) does it limits the width of the text to the specified 400px for the table cell, while the table is expanded to 700px what is specified as a table width. No other browser does this. I don't see any point in implementing this quirk. As times tells there aren't a lot pages relying on this quirk, we would otherwise have a bunch of dupes.